... However, Congress exempted Pell grants from sequesters in 2010, in a pay-as-you-go law (PL 111-139), said Jason Delisle, a higher-education expert at the New America Foundation. Because that applies only to mandatory funding, and Pell grants are funded through mandatory and discretionary dollars, some have interpreted the exemption to apply only to the mandatory-funding portion of the grants. ...

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